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Devil’s Hunt<\/strong> Big-budget action games of the hack-and-slash variety have seen a recent resurgence, with both the God of War and Devil May Cry franchises being perhaps the biggest dogs on the block. New hack-and\u2026er\u2026punch-and-punch actioner, Devil\u2019s Hunt,<\/em> was clearly inspired by both of these juggernauts and not only sought to blend them together, but sprinkle a little sumpin\u2019 sumpin\u2019 of its own into the mix, just for good measure. So how does this title stack up against the big boys of the genre?<\/p>\n In Devil’s Hunt,<\/em> you play as Desmond Pearce, the spoiled rotten son of a wealthy businessman. From the outset, Desmond seems to live quite the charmed life; he has a (undefined) high paying job his daddy bestowed upon him, a super-hot fianc\u00e9, and rides around in expensive cars. Oh, and he also kicks bootie as an amateur boxer in his off-time.<\/p>\n But as is often with people who seems to \u201chave it made,\u201d all that glitters isn\u2019t necessarily gold. In the blink of an eye, Desmond\u2019s fortunes take a rapid turn for the worse. He loses his job, gets beaten down by a no-name boxer, and finds his best friend having sexy-time (in Borat voice) with his girlfriend. Things go further off the rails when Desmond drives his car off a bridge in a successful suicide attempt.<\/p>\n Desmond wakes up and finds that he\u2019s been transported to hell by the bigger-than-big, baddest-of-the-baddest; Lucifer himself. He soon discovers that his reversal of fortune is all due to an ancient prophesy and that he is in fact a being known as the Savior and Destroyer. From there, he must decide whether he wants to fight for the angelic forces of good or the demonic forces of evil. Yes, good ol\u2019 fashioned angels vs. demons time.<\/p>\n If this whole angels and demons things sounds like a melodramatic novel from the 90s and early 2000s, you wouldn\u2019t be far off. Devil’s Hunt<\/em> is indeed based on (Polish author) Pawel Le\u015bniak’s novel, Equilibrium, which features\u2026you guessed it\u2026angels battling demons.<\/p>\n There is an increasing trend afoot where developers are basing their video games on novels, which I think is great. It means that gamers can get more immersed in a more \u201cfrom-the-heart\u201d novel adaptation. For game developers, it means that they can be more efficient with their time and need only concern themselves with the technical aspects of their games, as opposed to having to worry about creating a storyline from scratch and then fleshing it out (which takes a tremendous amount of work).<\/p>\n Unfortunately, Desmond comes across as a rather apathetic character. It\u2019s as if he doesn\u2019t really care which way the wind blows. This is in stark contrast to the more well-written characters, such as the angel Gabriel and even Desmond\u2019s cheating girlfriend, Kristin. The voice-acting is mainly pretty good. However, the facial animations are very lackluster, almost resembling flat masks with barely moving lips. They are so bad that the voice actor\u2019s lines don\u2019t always sync up with the movements of the cardboard-looking lip movements of the characters on-screen.<\/p>\n Devil’s Hunt\u2019s<\/em> visuals are powered by the ever-popular Unreal Engine and throughout most of the game, are used to good effect. The environments are gorgeously-rendered and really give you a sense of place, whether he is traversing through the lowest depths of hell or the highest peaks of heaven.<\/p>\n Gameplay-wise, Desmond can utilize three schools of fighting; Unholy, Executor, and Void. These may be switched between on the fly as each situation demands and feel pretty intuitive. Unfortunately, the combat itself feels stiff and unresponsive and sometimes I almost felt like I was fighting in slow-motion. A lot of his moves also felt tiresome and repetitive.<\/p>\n Games within the God of War and Devil May Cry franchises mitigate this feeling of repetitiveness by relishing the pure spectacle that they showcase, offering flashy, highly-cinematic maneuvers which you never really get tired of seeing over and over. Devil’s Hunt,<\/em> on the other hand, was developed with a much smaller budget, and hence it looks much more generic and bland by way of comparison.<\/p>\n Devil’s Hunt<\/em> is not a bad game, it\u2019s just not as nearly as impressive as its direct competitors. It has good writing, an interesting premise, and sumptuous graphics, but in the end feels like an indie title trying in vain to punch above its weight. I\u2019d recommend picking it up on sale.<\/p>\n SCORE: 71%<\/p>\n Devil’s Hunt <\/em>has some pretty nice looking graphics that make its brawling-based gameplay truly shine. However, you want to have a pretty beefy gaming PC or gaming laptop in order to play it at a decent framerate. So, you may just want to invest in a decent gaming rig:<\/p>\n Visit CyberpowerPC\u2019s website<\/a> to check out all of the other great deals as well!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Devil’s Hunt Layopi Games \/ 1C Entertainment Big-budget action games of the hack-and-slash variety have seen a recent resurgence, with both the God of War and Devil May Cry franchises being perhaps the biggest dogs on the block. New hack-and\u2026er\u2026punch-and-punch actioner, Devil\u2019s Hunt, was clearly inspired by both of these juggernauts and not only sought… Read More »Devil’s Hunt Review \u2013 Devil is Crying<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2724],"tags":[2520,5812,741,2488,2527,1225,67,2486,2545],"class_list":["post-12690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4k-gaming","tag-brawling-games","tag-cyberpower-pc","tag-game-review","tag-game-reviews-2","tag-gaming-laptop","tag-gaming-pc","tag-ian-kane","tag-third-person-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17093,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions\/17093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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